Two Israeli settlers were killed and several others were severely injured in a shooting attack on a settler vehicle near Mount Al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank on Monday.
شاهد| لحظة تنفيذ عملية إطلاق النار قرب حوارة جنوب نابلس. pic.twitter.com/draDuqlgTO
— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) August 19, 2023
According to Israeli media, the vehicle was traveling on Route 60 when it came under fire. Among the dead was a 40-year-old settler, while a critically wounded 35-year-old settler was transferred from the scene to Soroka Hospital in serious condition.
IOF swiftly reacted by imposing a comprehensive security cordon on the city, closing all its entrances. Occupation Military helicopters and special occupation forces were also deployed to track down the perpetrators.
BREAKING: Israeli occupation forces are raiding and thoroughly searching several neighborhoods in the city of Hebron right now, in a massive manhunt for the resistance fighters behind the shooting operation an hour ago near the city, which resulted in one Israeli settler killed… pic.twitter.com/2wAlQxm7Z0
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) August 21, 2023
lsraeli occupation forces carry out mass raids across the entire West Bank, detaining a number of Palestinians upon invading their houses. pic.twitter.com/csIkheUkkF
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) August 21, 2023
Meanwhile, the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, praised the shooting attack in the southern West Bank, describing it as a “valiant resistance strikes again with full force and challenge.”
In a press statement, the movement’s spokesperson Hazem Qassem said, “This process comes within its natural context of confronting the religious war against our sanctities and against the Zionist settlement projects in Jerusalem and the West Bank.”
Source: Palestinian and Israeli media (translated and edited by Al-Manar English Website)
